‘Gotham’ Season 2 Makes Joker and Barbara Arkham Pals in First Clip

Gotham split itself right down the middle between serious drama and campy Schumacher homage, and now with Barbara and a proto-Joker front and center for Season 2, which one would you imagine leads the charge by our first clip? Are you ready to visit Arkham and kick off the “Rise of the Villains?”

It remains to be seen if Gotham producers will throw us for a loop with Cameron Monaghan’s “So Obviously the Joker” Jerome, but the cackling villain looks to make a new friend in the similarly-incarcerated Barbara (co-ed sanitariums, because Gotham). If nothing else, Erin Richards at least looks to be having more fun with the out-and-out deranged Barbara, while it seems as if Todd Stashwick of “The Mask” also puts in a return appearance.